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HHJ/Mike George
Volunteers for Keep Warner Robins Beautiful, along with
employees from Atlanta Recycling Solutions, L.L.C., took
time to stop for a picture Saturday afternoon in front a
tall stack of television sets, computer monitors and other
electronics collected in the parking lot of the Happy Hour
Service Center in Warner Robins. Debra Jones, center,
helped organize the “E-Cycling” day, and the hundreds
of pieces of old electronic equipment collected Saturday
were shipped to Atlanta Recycling Solutions’ headquar
ters in Alpharetta. For more information about Keep
Warner Robins Beautiful, call Jones at 929-7258.
WRPD seeks suspects
in Monday’s stahhing
Warner Robins Police are
seeking two black males in
the stabbing Monday night of
Tywan Allen, 26, of Warner
Robins.
Det. Scott McSwain of
the Warner Robins Police
Department Criminal
Investigations Division said
that is the only description
police have at this time. He
18 looking to interview the
victim again.
The victim was found
by police at approximately
8:30 p.m. when officers of
the Warner Robins Police
Department responded to
an aggravated assault at a
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Kasey Lloyd, Houston County 4-H’er, grades a broken-out
egg for freshness.
HoGo 4-h'ers compete
In area poultry judging
Special to the HHJ
Six 4-H’ers from Houston
County competed at the
Southwest Area 4-H Poultry
Judging Contest recently. In
that venue, they matched
their poultry knowledge with
15 4-H teams from other
counties.
Team members prepared
for the event by attending
classes and workshops on
egg production, meat qual
ity, market egg candling,
exterior egg quality, broken
out egg quality and poultry
parts identification.
At the competition, all con
testants judged two classes
of live birds for egg produc
tion and gave oral reasons
for their selections on one
class.
In addition, they judged
carcasses for meat quality,
E-cycling
Watson Boulevard apart
ment. Upon the officers’
arrival they found Allen in
the parking lot suffering
from a stab wound to his
torso.
The continuing investiga
tion determined that the vic
tim had walked to that loca
tion after reportedly being
assaulted in the Bernard
Drive and Pleasant Hill Road
area. The victim was taken
to Houston Medical Center
and remains there in stable
condition, McSwain said.
Anyone with information
concerning the incident may
call McSwain at 929-6908.
candled eggs to determine
freshness and grade, and
judged eggs for exterior and
broken-out quality.
The Houston County junior
team received fourth place in
the competition. Team mem
bers were: Amber Carnes,
Morgan Collins, Dylan Jolley,
Brooke Lawhorn, Kasey
Lloyd, and Chastity Wilson.
The team scored higher than
any other first year team,
and was coached by Stacey
Ellison, 4-H Agent.
For more information on
4-H projects and educational
Jjudging events, please con
tact Stacey Ellison at the
Houston County Cooperative
Extension Office at 987-2028
or sellison@uga.edu. You can
also visit the Georgia 4-H
website at www.georgiadh.
org.
County unemployment rate drops
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Jobs are up and unem
ployment down in Houston
County, according to the
Georgia Department of
Labor.
The unemployment rate
in the metro Warner Robins
area declined to 4.1 percent
in March, down six-tenths of
one percent from 4.7 percent
in February. The area’s job
less rate was also 4.7 percent
in March of 2005.
The Metro Warner Robins
Service Area includes all of
Houston County.
There were 312 initial
claims for unemployment in
March, down from the 344
initial claims in February.
The number of initial claims
for March was also down 5.5
percent from the 330 claims
in March 2005.
Metro Warner Robins’
unemployment rate is slight
ly above the statewide rate of
4.5 percent in March, which
is down six-tenths of one
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percent from 5.1 percent in
February.
The unemployment rate
in the metro Macon area
declined to 5.2 percent in
March, down four-tenths of
one percent from 5.6 percent
in February, but still higher
than metro Warner Robins
and the state averages. The
area’s jobless rate was 5.7
percent in March of 2005.
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At 4.7 percent for March
the metro Warner Robins
unemployment is also below
the Middle Georgia Region
rate of 4.8 percent. The region
includes the counties in the
metro Macon and Warner
Robins service areas as well
as Baldwin, Peach, Pulaski
and Wilkinson counties.
The number of peo
ple employed in Georgia
increased by 30,452 in
March. While the number
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of people working increased,
so did the number of newly
created jobs. Georgia added
20,800 non-farm jobs from
February to March and has
gained 102,700 over the past
12-month period.
Houston County added
300 jobs from February to
March, moving up to 53,700
employed in March. There
were 52,700 employed in
March 2005.
Metro Macon lost 200 jobs
from February to March,
droppingto 101,100 employed
in March. There were 100,400
employed in March 2005 in
the five-county Macon Metro
Service Area. Most of the
jobs gained from February
to March statewide were in
trade and services, according
to the Department of Labor.
During the same one-month
period last year, Georgia
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of those also in trade and ser
vices. Georgia’s jobless rate
stood at 5.2 percent in March
of 2005.
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